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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Veldt.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who thinks Wendy changed the nursery from a veldt to a forest?
(a) Peter
(b) Both George and Lydia
(c) David
(d) Ruby

2. What is David McClean?
(a) A physician
(b) A machinist
(c) A psychologist
(d) A computer repairman

3. Who threatens George?
(a) David
(b) Wendy
(c) The nursery
(d) Peter

4. Who does the wife want the husband to call, and for what reason?
(a) A furnace repairman to fix the heat
(b) A plumber to look at the clogged bathtub
(c) A psychologist to take a look at the nursery
(d) A contractor to stop the leaking roof

5. When Lydia sits down in the chair, what does it do?
(a) Offers her a cup of coffee
(b) It does nothing; it is a chair
(c) Puts a blanket on her
(d) It rocks and comforts her

Short Answer Questions

1. What is “busy humming it to itself” in the opening paragraphs?

2. When George and David enter the nursery, what are the lions doing?

3. How do the children tell their parents that they won’t be home for dinner?

4. What has just been eating in the nursery?

5. What do they see when they look to the sky?

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